Word: rednecking
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...York, where we stay until the last round. Dallas needs a 29.4 to tie. It's not an easy score to get. Backstage we assure one another that we've won second place. Then Dallas sends off a raucous group piece about wanting to be a black, gay, redneck superhero. The crowd goes wild, chanting "10! 10! 10!" Dallas gets a perfect 30 and knocks us back to third. It's over...
...days. You're not even sure he's still in there. Last you knew, he was 48 hours into an Internet death match with complete strangers, or his eyes were bugged out of his head from a take-no-prisoners game of Carmageddon or Duke Nuke'em or Redneck Rampage...
While writing for a potential audience of several thousand people may be a new experience for the literature concentrator, doing comedy is not. By his own calculations, Sugarman estimates that he can imitate more than 50 voices--from that of a redneck to that of a 60-year-old chain-smoking Jewish woman...
...neighbors in the Shangri-la subdivision, Kip came across as polite, even friendly. "This was an all-American kid," says urologist Dennis Ellison. "He had a caring mother and father. This was not a redneck family." By all accounts, Bill Kinkel, 60, who retired from Thurston High after 30 years of teaching Spanish, and Faith, 57, who was head of the language department at Springfield High School, were beloved by their students and cherished by a broad swath of friends. They took Kip and his older sister Kristin, 21, a university student in Honolulu, on skiing and hiking trips...
...comparison with a redneck superstar might outrage bluestocking Wilde partisans, but it isn't quite the heresy it seems. Like Elvis, Wilde was a fiercely ambitious hinterlander who took the cultural establishment by storm ("I am not English, I am Irish--which is quite another thing," he stipulated). And here's the coup de grace: reviled as the leading bad influences of their day, both the King of Rock and the King of the Epigram have been resurrected as secular saints, albeit with slightly different constituencies...